Historic and contemporary sediment transfer in an upland Pennine catchment, UK

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2139-2155

  Holliday, V J ^a   Warburton, J ^a   Higgitt, D L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

137Cs; Catchment sediment budgets; North Pennines; Rainfall variability; Reservoir sedimentation; Sediment yields

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT SEDIMENT BUDGET; NORTH PENNINES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; RESERVOIR SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENT YIELDS;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RAIN; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 77953971197     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1660     Document Type: Article

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